Canticles for Bass Trombone & Wind Orchestra. (Score and Parts). By Johan De Meij. Score & Parts. Amstel Music. Grade 4-5. Amstel Music #AM95. Published by Amstel Music (HL.4000233).
Canticles is a welcome addition to the bass trombone solo repertoire. Johan de Meij has created a very melodic one movement solo piece for this noble instrument, superbly supported by the wind orchestra. An impressive show piece for the mature soloist! For added flexibility, there is a version available for soloist with piano. (Grade 4-5)Recorded on Canticles Amstel Classics (04000262)

Concerto For Horn by Serge Lancen. For Concert Band. Solo Concerts / French Horn Solo and Wind Band. Masterpieces. Grade 5. Score and Parts. Published by Molenaar Edition (ML.012127090).
This Concerto pour Cor was composed during the winter 1990/91. It is dedicated to the fine horn player Matthias Berg, who created it with the ad hoc symphonic band of a conductor's seminar at the Trossingen Music Academy (Germany), conducted by his father Hans Walter Berg, the director of the Academy, in august 1991. The version with piano was created by FranAois Cagnon, horn player at the Paris Opera, and the composer, in Paris in 1993. In order to preserve the solo character of the horn, the composer omitted all horns in the band.

Concerto Pour Trombone by Serge Lancen. For Concert Band. Solo Concerts / Trombone Solo and Wind Band. Solo and Band Series. Grade 4. Score and Parts. Published by Molenaar Edition (ML.011973080).
The TROMBONE CONCERTO was composed at the request of Michel BECQUET and Gilles MILLIERE. Both talented trombone players had deeply impressed the composer. The brilliant work, dedicated to both virtuosi, has been written for symphonic band. It was premiered by Michel BECQUET in Lyon in 1988 with the 'Ensemble Harmonique', conducted by Claude LECOINTE. There is also a version with piano.

Trombone Concerto by Derek Bourgeois (1941-). For Soloist(s) with Full Orchestra (Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Trumpet 3, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, Trombone 3, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (snare drum, suspended cymbal, bass drum, ). Orchestra Music. Score and parts. Duration 20:00. Published by C. Alan Publications (CN.R99902).
Derek Bourgeois is one of Britain's leading composers for brass and military bands and for solo wind instruments. Early in his career he showed a strong interest in the trombone and wrote a triple concerto for three trombones and orchestra. The idea was that the entire trombone section of an orchestra could come forward and display their abilities as a group and individually. While the premiere audience was strongly enthusiastic about the piece, it was rarely played after that. In 1988 Bourgeois returned to the trombone as a concerto instrument for the occasion of the first international trombone symposium in London, which was held in 1988. It is a substantial twenty-minute piece in three movements, "Allegro," "Adagio," and "Presto." Because trombonist from the worlds of pop and jazz would attend the symposium as well as classical artists, Bourgeois decided to make his new concerto musically ecumenical, and it was deliberately tailored to have an appeal wider than the usual classical audience. The third movement, in particular, was a great hit. The concerto was written for the Swedish player Christian Lindberg, who premiered it.

Symphony AD 78 by Gordon Jacob (1895-1986). For Concert Band (Piccolo, 1st Flute, 2nd Flute, Oboe 1/2, Bassoon 1/2, Eb Clarinet, 1st Bb Clarinet, 2nd Bb Clarinet, 3rd Bb Clarinet, Eb Alto Clarinet, Bb Bass Clarinet, Eb Alto Saxophone 1/2, Bb Tenor Saxophone, Eb Baritone Saxophone, 1st Bb Cornet, 2nd/3rd Bb Cornet, 1). Band Music. Grade 5. Score and parts. Duration 15:30. Published by C. Alan Publications (CN.R10158).
With this Symphony, Gordon Jacob proclaims his absolute mastery of idiom and instrumentation with a triumphant rejoicing. Written in 1978 as a commission from Arthur Doyle (hence the "AD" in the title, a typical piece of Jacob wit), it lay virtually unplayed save for the efforts of his Estate, Troy Peterson and Geoffrey Brand and CBDNA (College Band Directors Association, USA), who between them ensured that it was professionally recorded in 1994 and published in 1995.There is little point in indulging in semantics as to whether the piece is a Symphony. It is Jacob's approach to his tuneful, folk-based material which is symphonic: weighty in exposition and development, sonorous and expressive in the slow movement, with a scherzo-like last movement and a giocoso coda.After a brilliant opening fanfare, the quick triple-meter first theme (Allegro Risoluto) is introduced on clarinets, punctuated with brass. It is soon followed by a contrasting melody for saxophone. In all this material the interval of a 4th is prominent, and throughout the work the 4th and 7th are important. Perhaps it is the frequent use of the 7th which gives a feeling of restlessness without resolution which pervades this movement as the themes are dissected and developed.The second movement follows directly after a horn bridge. Still the melody outlines the 7th and the ear is not satisfied until the full band (with organ), comes to rest in Bb major. This point of repose and the magic pianissimo which follows shortly after when the slow theme is re-stated, are the apex of the Symphony's construction.Soon, however, we are transported, via a fanfare, into a helter-skelter 9/8 romp: rustic, English, and almost vulgar, this theme is thrown around the group before exploding into a boisterous 2/4 coda.

Trombone Concerto. (Trombone Feature). By Derek Bourgeois (1941-). For Soloist(s) with Concert Band (Solo Trombone, Piccolo, 1st Flute, 2nd Flute, Oboes, Eb Clarinet*, 1st Bb Clarinet, 2nd Bb Clarinet, 3rd Bb Clarinet, Eb Alto Clarinet*, Bb Bass Clarinet, Eb Alto Saxophone, Bb Tenor Saxophone, Eb Baritone Saxophone*, 1st/2nd F Horn, 3rd/4th F Horn, 1st B). Band Music. Platinum Band Series. Grade 5. Score and parts. Duration 20:00. Published by C. Alan Publications (CN.R10024).
The first movement of Derek Bourgeois' Trombone Concerto is constructed Classically: the solo trombone immediately launches into the opening theme in F minor, conceived harmonically in a sequence of descending thirds and it is the solo trombone too that introduces the lyrical second idea, in A flat, presented over chords which are given mobility by dark-toned alto and bass clarinets.These contrasting subjects give the composer ample opportunity to let loose his fertile imagination, whether expanding on the Baroque qualities of the opening material in a fugato section for woodwinds, or boldly stating the romantic second theme on brass leading to cascading sextuplets, or with the soloist presenting the first theme in augmentation against a ripple of semi-quavers.After this development, there is virtually a formal recapitulations in the woodwinds and the soloist repeats the second theme in tonic (F) major. The movement closes with pianissimo chords - no great bravura here, but leading us in mood to the second movement which opens a tone lower in E-flat.Here, the rich tone of the soloist is matched by three accompanying trombones - with the writing equaling the expressiveness of a cello quartet. Gradually, the rest of the low brass join as the solo trombone weaves a seamless, almost Wagnerian theme, extending phrases sequentially. This movement has two separate thoughts and a solo clarinet answers the trombone with a new theme accompanied only by three horns, euphonium, and pizzicato string bass.Whilst most of the slow movement is contemplative, Bourgeois allows the band to unleash the full fortissimo passion implied in the second, clarinet theme, before the movement closes as it began - but this time only two trombones accompany the soloist, and all three are muted.After the passion of the slow movement, Bourgeois adopts a Classical rondo form as a 6/8 Scherzo, marked Presto, which gives the release we need. It is fun, to be thrown off lightly as we enjoy the semitone shifts with a wry smile. Towards the end of the movement is a cadenza which alludes to the thematic content of the first movement, but aurally the hard work has been done. For the soloist however, the music requires a virtuoso combination of slide and tongue.Derek Bourgeois' Trombone Concerto was commissioned by the British Trombone Society for the International Trombone Workshop at Eton, England, July 1989 with gratefully acknowledged assistance from Southern Arts. The world premiere was given by Christian Lindberg.

Sonata for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble by Kent Kennan (1913-). Concert Band. Concert Band. Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Form: Sonata. Contemporary. Grade 5. Conductor Score & Parts. 254 pages. Duration 15:55. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.DH9801).
ISBN 076926574X. Contemporary.
In 1986, Kent Kennan revised this well-known trumpet and piano recital piece (originally published in 1956) with a new ending for the first movement. More recently, he made this scoring for solo trumpet and wind ensemble and provided both the original and new endings in this new edition. A tremendous contribution to the solo trumpet repertoire! (15:55) Recording of the Eastman Wind Ensemble at 50 recording. Available from from Alfred as item 00-DH001CD.Solo with ensemble.